Phantom

(adj.) something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; 'seemed to hear faint phantom bells'; 'the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb' .

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• Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• But it was a truism, a phantom, and broke down under the weight of her regret. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• And their long-departed owners seemed to throng the gloomy cells and corridors with their phantom shapes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• See what a poor, pale, grim phantom I am--more pitiable than formidable. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Oh, my worldly friends, pursuing the phantom, Pleasure, through the guilty mazes of Dissipation, how easy it is to be happy, if you will only be good! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all: you are a mere dream. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It was as though she had stepped, not out of, but into, Reynolds's canvas, banishing the phantom of his dead beauty by the beams of her living grace. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• His sleep was broken by infant wails and visions of a phantom figure pacing noiselessly to and fro in the watches of the night. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Then he withdrew like a phantom. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Well, but can you imagine that God will be willing to lie, whether in word or deed, or to put forth a phantom of himself? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• With all this, I had never yet been able to arrest in his visits the freakish, friendlycigar-loving phantom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It is a phantom difference created by two names. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I doubt if any man can stand in the Grotto of the Annunciation and people with the phantom images of his mind its too tangible walls of stone. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The day comes like a phantom. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The Flying Dutchman is a phantom ship said to be seen in stormy weather off the Cape of Good Hope, and thought to forbode ill luck. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Let me stand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying the shadow of myself, in dim procession. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Hence my bewilderment at the phantoms of chairs, and the wraiths of looking-glasses, tea-urns, and teacups. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Here, under the quiet stars, these old streets seem thronged with the phantoms of forgotten ages. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There is a dread, unhallowed necromancy of evil, that turns things sweetest and holiest to phantoms of horror and affright. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• With this difference, that being realities and not phantoms, there is the greater danger of their breaking in. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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